Archaeologists excavating the ruins of an ancient Assyrian king’s throne room in Iraq found a massive 26,000-pound carving, a university said. Photo from Schmitt via Heidelberg University Sifting ...

Archaeology is fascinating stuff. Far from just digging around in the dust and dirt, archaeologists uncover clues about civilization’s past and make groundbreaking discoveries that can sometimes turn ...

A routine fire patrol, operating some 200 miles northwest of the country's capital, Astana, discovered a nearly foot-long ...

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It seems that people 1,700 years ago enjoyed the same battles of endurance that you might find today in a country pub. Archaeologists have uncovered a marble sarcophagus from the Roman era in Caesarea ...

After seven years of study, archaeologist Ryan Primrose of the Ontario Centre for Archaeological Education announced that Nordic runes carved into a remote rock near Wawa, Ontario, represent the ...

1. Introduction / Felipe Rojas and Jonathan Ben-Dov -- 2. Entangled images : royal memory, posthumous presence, and the afterlives of Assyrian rock reliefs / Karen Sonik and David Kertai -- 3.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Amateur archaeologists uncovered a sandstone relief of the Roman goddess of victory in Northumberland. The find occurred in a pile of rubble at the ...

ROME — Italian police have recovered ancient Roman marble reliefs depicting stunningly lifelike gladiators locked in mortal combat after unearthing the hidden cache of grave robbers, officials said ...